If I Had to Guess
Planning and decision-making, organizing, leading, and controlling.
What are the four functions of management?
Top, Middle, and First-Line.
What are the three levels of management?
Using resources wisely in a cost-effective way.
What is management efficiency?
Introduction, growth, maturity, and decline.
What is the product life cycle?
Modifying a benefits system yearly to maintain employee satisfaction.
What is planned change?
Unfreezing, implementing (change), and refreezing.
What is Kurt Lewin's model?
The conditions and forces within an organization (culture, employee morale, company values, and mission statement).
What is the internal environment?
Making the right decisions and successfully implementing them.
What is effective management?
Substantive modification to some part of the organization.
What is change?
The degree to which the overall task of the organization is broken down and divided into small components.
What is job specialization?
This analysis of internal and external environments supports the mission, exploits opportunities, avoids weaknesses, and neutralizes threats.
What is a good organizational SWOT analysis?
Specific organizations or groups that affect the organization.
What is the task environment?
A formal assessment of how well an employee is doing on their job?
What is a performance appraisal (evaluation)?
Skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, and feedback.
What is the job characteristics approach?
A person who can influence others in a business.
What is a good leader?
Self-actualization, esteem, belongingness, security, and physiology.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
A manager's ability to prioritize work, work efficiently, and delegate work appropriately.
What is time management?
This reflects an organization's investment in attracting, retaining, and motivating an effective workforce.
What is human capital?
The desire to influence a group of people and control one's environment.
What is power?
This scientific management theory does not allow managers autonomy when making decisions.
What is Classical Management?
Functional (U-form), conglomerate (H-form), divisional (M-form), and matrix design.
What are the basic forms of organizational design?
Cost of living, inflation, and interest rates.
What is the economic environment?
Giving or withholding increases in salaries or bonuses.
What is a reward?
Decentralization and bureaucracy encompass degrees of formality, organization design, and levels of participation.
What is organizational structure?
Internal experts help executives learn about how others see them and improve their performance in the future.
What is coaching and counseling?